All of the store's profits went to charities benefiting NYC children. This venture was shaped in part by the success of Treasure & Bond, a pop-up store that she co-founded with Nordstrom and Anna Wintour in 2011. While writing her books, Marron launched Good Companies, a curated, online guide to companies that strive to do good while also making a profit. She then became Senior Features Editor at Vogue, where she has been a contributing editor for twenty years. Marron began her first career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and then at Lehman Brothers.

Marron is also a trustee of Friends of the High Line, where she was also Board Chair, and a trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. She is currently a trustee and Chair Emeritus of The New York Public Library, where she was Chairman of the Board from 2004 to 2011. Marron's career has encompassed investment banking, magazine journalism, public service, and book publishing. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Catie Marron is the creator and editor of two anthologies published by HarperCollins which explore the value and significance of urban public spaces: City Squares, Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World (2016), and City Parks: Public Places, Private Thoughts (2013). Fusing images and text, City Parks is an extraordinary and unique project: through personal reflection and intimate detail it taps into collective memory and our sense of time’s passage. Taken around the world over the course of a year, in every season, his pictures capture the inherent mood of each place.

Oberto Gili’s color and black-and-white photographs unify the writers’ unique and personal voices. Zadie Smith, Ian Frazier, Candice Bergen, Colm Tóibín, Nicole Krauss, Jan Morris, and a dozen other remarkable contributors reect on a particular park that holds special meaning for them. Zadie Smith, Ian Frazier, Candice Bergen, Colm Tóibín, Nicole Krauss, Jan Morris, and a dozen other remarkable contributors reflect on a particular park that holds special meaning for them.Īndrew Sean Greer eloquently paints a portrait of first love in the Presidio André Aciman muses on time’s fleeting nature and the changing face of New York viewed from the High Line Pico Iyer explores hidden places and privacy in Kyoto Jonathan Alter takes readers from the 1968 race riots to Obama’s 2008 victory speech in Chicago’s Grant Park Simon Winchester invites us along on his adventures in the Maidan and Bill Clinton writes of his affection for Dumbarton Oaks. City Parks Catie Marron Catie Marron’s City Parks captures the spirit and beauty of eighteen of the world’s most-loved city parks. Catie Marron’s City Parks captures the spirit and beauty of eighteen of the world’s most-loved city parks.

City Parks by Catie Marron